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October 4, 2008
'Debate impressions,' and by the way, 'What worries me is not that Palin could not do the job of Vice President but that Obama may well be President'
Topics: Political News and commentariesVictor Davis Hanson on Barack Obama from his must-read piece titled "Debate Impressions":
[...] What worries me is not that Palin could not do the job of Vice President, but that Obama may well be President, a man of dubious associations, a hyper-partisan voting record, a disturbing if not vicious campaign history in Illinois, with large lacunae in his past at Columbia, and before and during Harvard, and a record of very little accomplishment if not frequent failure as an ambitious community organizer, while a politicized professor at Chicago Law School without a trace of scholarly publication. The pattern is the same: rhetoric, identity politics, and charisma substitute for accomplishment as he goes from one position to the next before the assessment of the last is in.Please take time to read all of what every American should be reading before. they vote.... In contrast, the mayorship in an Alaskan outback, local politics, the governorship of Alaska, at least suggest she had to perform in the give and take of rough and tumble Alaskan politics and be responsible for budgets, decisions, and hiring and firing. In that regard, Obama reminds me of a lot of the very bright people I went to graduate school with, and Palin the very independent and reliable people I farmed with.
Hat tip: Bill Hobbs.com
Posted by Richard at October 4, 2008 10:57 AM
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Victor Davis Hanson has struck the proverbial nail on the head with his "Debate Impressions”. I still find it incredulous that Barack Obama is the Democratic Presidential Nominee. He must have been "vetted" by paper approval forgoing any investigation into his actual personal history. I fear that the American electorates are largely lemmings following the dictates of the bias and subjective new media. To quote Jackson Browne for his "Lives in the Balance" album:
They sell us our president the same way they sell us our cars. They sell us everything from youth to religion the same time the sell us our wars.
Wouldn't it be nice to have a real statesman as president, one who could formulate thought, who had a real commitment to hold true their oath of office to uphold and defend the constitution and serve the American people?
I am surprised that there are not more commends for this post by Mr. Hanson. I personally have found it difficult to post comments on a lot of sites due to spam, pop-ups and even blank page pop-ups that continue to open incessantly one after the other that often requires me to have to reboot my computer to regain control? Is it just me, my pc or are other people having similar difficulties? Usually for an article like Mr. Hanson’s I would have expected to see more comments posted, a great deal more.
Posted by: Squibster at October 4, 2008 12:20 PM
Victor Davis Hanson has struck the proverbial nail on the head with his "Debate Impressions”. I still find it incredulous that Barack Obama is the Democratic Presidential Nominee. He must have been "vetted" by paper approval forgoing any investigation into his actual personal history. I fear that the American electorates are largely lemmings following the dictates of the bias and subjective new media. To quote Jackson Browne for his "Lives in the Balance" album:
They sell us our president the same way they sell us our cars. They sell us everything from youth to religion the same time the sell us our wars.
Wouldn't it be nice to have a real statesman as president, one who could formulate thought, who had a real commitment to hold true their oath of office to uphold and defend the constitution and serve the American people?
I am surprised that there are not more commends for this post by Mr. Hanson. I personally have found it difficult to post comments on a lot of sites due to spam, pop-ups and even blank page pop-ups that continue to open incessantly one after the other that often requires me to have to reboot my computer to regain control? Is it just me, my pc or are other people having similar difficulties? Usually for an article like Mr. Hanson’s I would have expected to see more comments posted, a great deal more.
The following came up when I tried to post a comment and hit the preview tab:
Publish error in template 'Comment Preview Template': Error in tag: Error in tag: The MTCommentFields tag is no longer available; please include the Comment Form template module instead.
Then I was bumped off line something’s a miss on your comment board…
Posted by: Squibster at October 4, 2008 10:37 PM
